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Biofriction Radio_ Adriana Knouf

by: Biofriction

Publication date: 2021-03-01

Topics: space art, satellites, radio transmission, non-human encounters, drone flight, queer and trans futurities, machine learning, the voice

Language: English

Biofriction Radio is a collection of podcasts moderated by Biofriction residents and experts from the bio-sciences and the humanities concerning evolutionary biology, artistic practices, and ideas from experimental research with biotech. The radio is part of the European project Biofriction led by Hangar in partnership with Zavod Kersnikova, Bioart Society and Cultivamos Cultura.

In the podcast, the artist Adriana Knouf talks about her project Xenological Entanglements. 001: Eromatase, which she began developing during her Biofriction residency at Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova Institute. She touches upon several aspects of the project, ranging from her childhood desire to go to space, xenology, self-experimentation, hormones, relationships between art, science and technology, to cell cultivation, thin-layer chromatography, open-source clinostat construction, and transhackfeminism. Furthermore, she talks about several different forms that her project took on: a lecture-performance 001a: Trying Plastic Variations, a text ALIENS–ONTOPOIETIC SELF-EXPERIMENTATION–MOLECULAR–MATRIX–VOICE, a public discussion Intoxicated by Estrogen, and a photo-performance and object titled 001b: Saccular Fount. The audio clip is enriched by original sounds, recorded for and at her 001a: Trying Plastic Variations lecture-performance in October 2020 in Ljubljana.